Lead Midwife for Antenatal Ward

Job summary

Lead Midwife for Antenatal Ward with Cross Cover for the Postnatal Ward

Are you an experienced and compassionate midwife with a passion for both antenatal and postnatal care? We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled midwife to lead our Antenatal Ward while also providing valuable cross cover for our Postnatal Ward, required when the postnatal lead midwife is on leave or not available. Join our dynamic maternity unit and play a pivotal role in delivering exceptional care to mothers and their newborns.

We are looking for forward-thinking, positive leaders who can help us continue to achieve great things. The ideal candidate will already be operating at an advanced level, possessing a wide range of clinical skills and experience in various settings, and be able to support junior staff while ensuring quality care provision for women.

Main duties of the job

• Be an expert practitioner and role model.
• Provide proactive and demonstrate effective leadership skills.
• Foster a culture of support for multidisciplinary working taking in to account the needs of other professionals and students from all disciplines
• Promote safe, evidence-based care.
• Develop and publish auditable standards to demonstrate service compliance with
• Provide operational and clinical leadership to all staff working within the antenatal ward.
• Foster a culture that promotes women centred care and supports individualised care plans.
• Develop systems and processes to improve and develop support, communication and a positive culture within the service.
• Explore ways to further develop the integration of services to meet the continuity of carer agenda.
• Promote inter-professional and multidisciplinary working to ensure care pathways and service developments are established to provide women centred care and optimise outcomes.

About us

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We're also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people's homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon.Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we're no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff.If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challenge yourself and be part of an NHS Trust that's making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you're looking for.